Implanting pacemakers in those who meet criteria for prophylactic use appears to be overtreating some patients.

Researchers at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital have shown that combining distal protection devices with the prophylactic use of the drug nicardipine can reduce the risk of complications following ...

Pacing device implants (PDIs) or implantable cardioverter-defibrillators (ICD) may be placed to treat or prevent the consequences of amyloid deposits (heart failure and conduction disturbances) in ...

The FDA issued a Class I recall — the most serious recall classification — for some of Medtronic’s cardiac resynchronization therapy and implantable cardioverter defibrillators. Here are four things ...

Prophylactic tocilizumab has the potential to decrease cytokine release syndrome and neurotoxicity for bispecific antibodies, explained Robert Rifkin, MD, FACP, a medical oncologist and hematologist ...

Show More From the Department of Surgery, Division of Pediatric Surgery, Penn State College of Medicine, Hershey; Department of Surgery, Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA; Department ...

China: Using a simple nasopharyngeal airway before painless gastrointestinal endoscopy can dramatically cut the risk of dangerous oxygen drops in obese outpatients, new research in Respiratory ...

Current guidelines recommend 5 to 7 days of broad-spectrum antibiotic prophylaxis for upper gastrointestinal bleeding in patients with cirrhosis. In a systematic review and meta-analysis, shorter ...

Urokinase administration every 2 weeks significantly affects the rate of occlusive events in ports and tunneled catheters and of infectious events in external catheters compared with heparin ...